Pune: Central Government officials with the Portal Management Team confirmed on Friday that connecting all universal immunization programs (UIP) under the Ministry of Health and family welfare with Cowin was in work.
“The ministry provides several vaccines to infants, children and pregnant women through this program.
Active discussion to integrate the entire program with Cowin because it is likely to have almost 80 crore registration in the next few months after Covid-19 vaccination for children starts.
This Means that it is not only covid inoculation, but all vaccinations provided under the UIP can be brought on the Cowin platform, “officials told toi.
“The Cowin platform is ready with a tie with private hospitals and the government, vaccination applications, third party providers and also have technology to send dosage warnings because of beneficiaries, in this case Mother, as done for covid vaccines.
This means that children and The mothers who are immunized in this program will also have a digital certificate after receiving their shots, “the official said.
He added that with crores registration about Cowin, the Beneficiary Data Base with the cellphone number was made, which is one way to integrate UIP with Cowin.
Experts say that citizens are currently undergoing vaccination under the UIP do not have access to the digital system through which they can check their vaccination records, with only manual cards available as vaccination records.
Dr.
Naveen Thacker, the elected president of the International Pediatric Association (IPA), said, “At present, the child’s immunization record is only on a manual paper card.
This is the need for hours that we digitize vaccination records, which is why the entire UIP system must be integrated with the platform Cowin.
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